The Midpacker Podcast

​​The MidPacker pod is brought to you by FreeTrail with generous support from Vacation Races.  Today on the Pod, Troy Meadows talks to his dear friend Heidi Garner. Heidi is a mother, community organizer, artist, entrepreneur, and Trail and UltraRunner. They talk about how Heidi has found balance in raising several children with her running goals. How she has used her passion for endurance sports...

Today on the Pod, Troy Meadows talks with Eugene Day.  Eugene is a Data Science and Discrete Event Simulation Director at Seattle Children's Hospital who loves Trail and Ultrarunning, dabbles in poetry and is always striving to be a better leader. They discuss several topics, including Eugene's Sobriety and how he decided to stop drinking. His love of poetry, he actually recites a poem he...

The MidPacker pod is brought to you by FreeTrail with generous support from Vacation Races.  Today on the pod Troy Meadows sits down with Jessica Grinspan.  Jessica is a public health researcher, trail runner, and ultrarunner from Philadelphia, PA, with a passion for aligning running pursuits with social advocacy. She is also a vibrant member of the FreeTrail community and an active member of the...

In this episode of the MidPacker pod brought you by FreeTrail , with generous support from Vacation Races , Troy Meadows has a discussion with Ari Sonnenberg.   Ari has a mindset that is very powerful, and through reckoning with a lot of trauma in his life, more than anyone should have to bear, he has managed to cultivate a thoughtful approach to mindfulness and a zeal for living with a no-nonsens...

This episode of the MidPacker pod is brought you by FreeTrail , with generous support from Vacation Races , With all the UTMB festivities right around the corner, the stoke is super high to have this week's guest on the pod. In this Episode Troy Meadows talking with dear friends Mat Glaser and Maureen Cane. A year ago, Mat took a sabbatical from his job as a Teacher in Berkley, and together, h...

In this episode of the MidPacker pod brought you by FreeTrail , with generous support from Vacation Races , Troy Meadows talks with Vivian Tang about acting locally while thinking globally when it comes to empowering the BIPOC community to embrace the trails. Vivian is a clinical pharmacist, trail runner, and community organizer.  She is very passionate about inclusion in trail running and we dive...

In this episode of the MidPacker pod brought you by FreeTrail , with generous support from Vacation Races , Troy Meadows talks with Melissa Sorenson about finding the trails, parenthood, and the backyard ultra format.  Melissa is an ultrarunner, educator, and mother of soon to be 3. Having just recently found out that she is pregnant with her 3rd child. In this episode, we talk about how Melissa a...

In this episode of the MidPacker pod brought you by FreeTrail Troy Meadows talks with Travis Weller about his art and how Travis has aligned with brands in the running space merge his passions with his vocation. Travis is an artist, father, trail runner, and ultrarunner whose work with brands like the North Face and Roark has crafted a life that aligns his creative pursuits and his love of the tra...

In this episode of the MidPacker Pod, Troy Meadows talks with Jessica Vandenbush, a content creator, trail and ultrarunner, and all-around fun person.  This was an enjoyable conversation centered around some of the unique things Jessica has done around building community and creating content in the running world and how she approaches balance in her life while finding time to pursue her passions. ...

In this episode, Troy Meadows sits down with Doug Mayer to talk about his new book: The Race That Changed Running The Inside Story of UTMB .  Doug is a journalist who has written content for Trail Runner Magazine, Ultra Runner Magazine, and Ultra Sign Up. In his former life Doug was a PRoducer on the NPR show Car Talks. He is also the founder of Run the Alps , a trail running guide service based i...

In this episode, Troy Meadows sits down with Corinne Shalvoy to talk all things trail running. Corinne is a mother, a wife, and a very fast lady running on team Aravaipa. From running her first Marathon with her husband in over 5 hours many years ago to running sub 3 hours, taking 1st place, and setting a massive PR at the Tucson Marathon last year, Corinne is an amazing ambassador for the communi...

Matthew Hoadley is a trail runner and ultra runner based in Massachusetts. He is a recovering alcoholic, community organizer, and race director for the Womp Romp 50k and 10 miler. He is also a big part of the Freetrail Community helping to facilitate the Mental Health Office hours, a subgroup within Freetrail. He has also written a piece published by  Freetrail titled “ We get to do this '&#39...